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The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far

the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking

was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning

and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything

seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the

tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile,

French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or

under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of

Liberation had their darker side. The war in northern France marked

not just a generation but the whole of the post-war world,

profoundly influencing relations between America and Europe. Making

use of overlooked and new material from over thirty archives in

half a dozen countries, D-Day is the most vivid and well-researched

account yet of the battle of Normandy. As with Stalingrad and

Berlin, Antony Beevor's gripping narrative conveys the true

experience of war.

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Antony Beevor is the author of The Battle for Spain, Crete - The

Battle and the Resistance, which won a Runciman Prize, Paris After

the Liberation, 1944-1949, (written with his wife Artemis Cooper),

Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize

for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, Berlin - The

Downfall, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees'

Award, and The Mystery of Olga Chekhova. He also edited A Writer at

War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945, a compilation of

the great novelist's wartime notebooks. His most recent work is

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy(Viking, May 2009). It immediately

became a No 1 Bestseller in five European countries, including the

UK and France, and was in the top four in three other countries.

His books have appeared in thirty languages and have sold over four

million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has

received an honorary doctorate from Kent University, and is a

visiting professor at the School of History, Classics and

Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. 'His

singular ability to make huge historical events accessible to a

general audience recalls the golden age of British narrative

history, whose giants include Gibbon, Macaulay and Carlyle.' Boyd

Tonkin in the Independent 'Beevor can be credited with

single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history.'

David Edgar in the Guardian Antony Beevor was educated at

Winchester and Sandhurst, where he studied under John Keegan. A

regular officer with the 11th Hussars, he left the Army to write.

Antony Beevor was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des

Lettres by the French government in 1997 and in 2008 was awarded

the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana by the President of

Estonia. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

in 1999. He was the 2002-2003 Lees-Knowles lecturer at Cambridge.

In 2003, he received the first Longman-History Today Trustees'

Award. He is also Visiting Professor at the School of History,

Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.

In September 2003, he succeeded Philip Pullman as Chairman of the

Society of Authors and handed over to Helen Dunmore in September,

2005. In July 2004, he received an honorary degree of Doctor of

Letters from the University of Kent. He was a judge of the British

Academy Book Prize and the David Cohen Prize in 2004, and is a

member of the Samuel Johnson Prize steering committee. From

Stalingrad to Berlin When I read one particular account of a German

officer captured at Stalingrad, I knew what the next book had to

be. This officer, along with a group of exhausted survivors from

the 297th Infantry Division, were being marched through the streets

of Stalingrad - they could manage only a painful shuffle due to

frostbite and starvation - when a Russian colonel pointing to the

ruins around, yelled: 'That's how Berlin is going to look!' Russian

armies advancing on Germany in 1944 and 1945 measured their advance

both from Stalingrad, the furthest point of German advance as well

as the perceived turning point of the war, and by the distance

still left to 'The Lair of the Fascist Beast' - the capital of the

Reich. The links between the two great battles were intriguing. The

8th Guards Army, the largest of Zhukov's formations attacking

Berlin, was the old 62nd Army from Stalingrad. Its brutally

effective commander, General Chuikov, who bestirred his officers to

greater activity with hard punches, found however, that

close-quarter combat in Berlin was rather different from what he

had dubbed 'the Stalingrad Academy of Street-Fighting'. the

Russians were taken aback by the almost suicidal bravery of

fifteen-year-old Hitler Youth armed with Panzerfaust anti-tank

launchers. Hitler, on the other hand, living almost entirely off

wild delusion, persuaded himself that Berlin would be a Stalingrad

in reverse, with his Ninth and Twelfth Armies cutting off the

Russian attackers in a surprise pincer. He refused to acknowledge

that they utterly lacked the material, physical, and moral strength

to launch any sort of counter-attack. And when the Russians fought

their way into the centre of Berlin, they found the Chancellery of

the German Reich defended by the Scandinavian SS Nordland Division

and the remnants of the French SS Charlemagne. These foreign

diehards were among the last to lay down their arms. It was strange

to hear of such experiences from the surviving battalion commander

in a darkened Parisian apartment: an old man who still receives

death threats. But the Fall of Berlin, even more than the Battle of

Stalingrad, is a terrible story of civilian as well as military

suffering. The annihilation of East Prussia in January and February

1945 provided an atrocious warning of Russian revenge. German

villagers who had not been allowed by the Nazi authorities to flee

until it was too late, found themselves treated without mercy.

Soviet troops were allowed to rape, loot and destroy virtually at

will. When I read in a Moscow archive Beria's reports to Stalin on

the mass suicides of East German civilians, it was quite clear that

neither man had any intention of curbing their troops. Far more

shocking documents were to emerge later in another archive, and I

must admit that I am still unable to make up my mind about the real

causes of such behaviour, especially when so many Russian soldiers

and officers showed genuine kindness for German women and children.

Russian troops, especially those liberated from the abominable

treatment which they had received in German prisoner of war camps,

had much to avenge, but some of their actions almost defy belief as

well as logic. The whole debate over 'rape as a weapon of war' s

far from straightforward, as I think the book will show. Several

other explosive issues also emerged during the course of research

in Moscow archives, but I prefer not to say anything at this stage,

partly because I do not want anything to be taken out of context,

but also because I need to do more research and double-checking

from other directions. Berlin is a much larger subject, both in

size and scope, than Stalingrad was, and to cover the ground in a

similar time - three and a half years - is a considerable

challenge. There have been many more archives to visit (in France,

Britain, Sweden and the United States, as well as of course Russia

and Germany) and many more people to interview, both civilians and

soldiers. I am quite honestly terrified of the task of turning our

mountains of photocopied documents and tape-recordings into a

coherent whole, but I hope that if the structure is right, then

things will fall into place. The objective is to deliver the

manu* by the end of October 2001 so that the book can come out

in May 2002, exactly four years after the publication of

Stalingrad.

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The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side. The war in northern France marked not just a generation but the whole of the post-war world, profoundly influencing relations between America and Europe. Making use of overlooked and new material from over thirty archives in half a dozen countries, D-Day is the most vivid and well-researched account yet of the battle of Normandy. As with Stalingrad and Berlin, Antony Beevor's gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war.